Garden Chores To Do NOW For Your Best Spring Garden
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Today I cover all the basic background tasks that are essential for a great spring garden. They might not be the most exciting tasks but they will help you setup for a low maintenance and healthy spring garden!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Fertilize Fruit Trees & Berries
04:08 - Fertilize Garlic
06:04 - Seedling Care
09:18 - Potting Up Tomatoes
13:07 - Tomato Companion Plants
15:04 - Why Weeding Maters
18:33 - Planting Flower Patches
21:41 - Pruning And Potting Roses
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Bulgarian culture is fascinating. It’s really not talked about much and I love when you share little pieces of your culture with us.
It is fun to stay connected with it!
i second this!
I was thinking the same thing!
I like these comments 😅
I lived in Bulgaria and a lot of the trees are decorated with the little red and white bracelets 😊
i immigrated to san diego from bulgaria when i was very young and my boyfriend always sends me your videos when you mention the country or some fun parts of the culture. it makes me so happy to see our culture represented in such a cool way
I love hearing this! There are for sure a decent amount of Bulgarians in San Diego for sure, love to hear it!
Ugh perfect timing to keep me going. I literally just finished weeding and remulching my 2nd year veggie garden and started a new succulent garden bed where grass (weeds) used to be. Happy spring everyone!! 🌱🍄🌷
Nice work! Keep it up ❤
Awesome! The slower growing succulents will appreciate the weed free growing space.
I’m 66. In paid off home that is same age as I and it has a terrific back yard and I’ve carved out a garden 87 feet x 30 feet and I LOVE IT. I’m here to learn more about the next level of gardening. That’s homesteading to me!
You're living the life!!
I love planting wildflower patches. It's brings so much beauty, attracts pollinators, and becomes a little homes to some wildlife.
Does wildlife like to live in patches?
@@Wyndham21044 Obviously the bigger the patch, the better but some little pollinators like to live in tall grasses and meadow-like environments.
Jacques, you garden so smart. Keep on keeping on, and sharing your wisdom!
Your timing with this video is perfect! I literally just set out a tray of tomatoes to pot up tomorrow!❤
Awesome! Get those tomatoes in their happy new homes!
Love you addressed fertilizing. I feel like videos don't really address this often enough and some of us (me included) thought I had bad soil after a couple years and production reduced drastically.
This year we are fertilizing, even our seedlings.
It makes a big difference!
I can't wait to see it 😍
Been removing fencing(gonna repurpose in to archways), dividing perennials, planting tons of forsythia, harvesting rivercane, laying down pine straw mulch and pathways.... Laid down grass seed...
I'm so ready for the warm weather to stay around!
Thanks for taking us along!🥂🌹🏵️💐 ☘️
Such a busy time of year in the best way!
@@lessonologyplants3064 Yes! Had to do that after my mother took over my original Facebook and UA-cam. She was pretending to be me... Creepy, huh?
Great video Jacques! Lots of good info, and motivation to get outside and get ready for spring! I love that you are including native plants in your garden.😄
Trying to include as many as I can!
This is right on time. I was topping off my raised beds last weekend here in zone 8a Georgia. I have several native flower varieties I want to plant in the front yard between shrugs but I wasn’t sure on the best method. I’ll definitely try the rack, scatter then step on method you used. Thank you. Happy Spring everyone 🐝🦋
Fun fact about a chicken diet: you can feed them dried marigolds which will fight diseases with their natural antioxidants? The marigold also makes their egg yolk more golden!
I started my pastel alyssum from BI today to plant along with my tomato bed and as a cover for my front yard. This is my first year growing it 😊
Thank you for the video. I wanted to tell you that your Bird Of Paradise is really beautiful. I love your Blanket flowers too.
Thank you, the Bird of Paradise loves San Diego.
They do well here in Central Florida too.@@jacquesinthegarden
Thank you for using native plants! Excited to see you get more into that :)
I love watching your videos because it reminds me of a trip I had to san diego - beautiful weather, beautiful greenery, all the birds and bees...such good memories that inspired me to have my own little garden back home. Your videos are invaluable in helping me do that, as well as a huge nostalgia hit. thank you!!
I am glad I can help!
Thanks for the tomato seedling tips I'm going to repot mine soon.
We do the same with the bracelets in Greece! But we use them so the warm sun won't "give us a sunburn" !
Haha I love that connection
Thank you! Your videos are the BEST!
Great video!!!
Very excited for your shade native garden!
Thank you a lot for your timely advice!
I love this format
Thank you for the fertilizing tips. And all other tips really.
gardening is so relaxing
I gave my blueberries more soil, fertilizer and mulch mid-November and they're as happy as the bees buzzing around them.
Fall is an ideal time to fertilize and refresh them for sure!
One of the most important principles of rose pruning is to try and prune just above a bud node that faces out away from the center. That encourages growth toward the outside of the plant and keeps the center from getting crowded and diseased. 💚
Don't hold your breath waiting for the first stork! 😄
Haha, yeah I am not waiting on a stork that is for sure!
Tons of useful info! Thx!
Jacque, you have so much good content, and I really appreciate how easy your explainations are to follow.
Greetings from Bulgaria and thanks for the nice videos. They are helping me a lot, in my new journey of gardening.
Excellent tips! I'm also doing lots of those tasks in my garden. 😊Great video.
Thanks for the demo on fertilizing the garlic in between the rows! I went out and fertilized mine that way the next day after watching this. Brilliant!
By far my favorite gardening channel Jacques. Really well done in how well you research and explain so thoughtfully. Keep it up my man!
I LOVEE the smell of alyssum!! One of my favorite flowers right behind zinnias :)
Thank you!❤
My yard/gardens are not even that big, but the thought of those spring cleanup tasks feels daunting.
I like to divide it all into tiny tasks. I'm more likely to keep at it if I trick myself into thinking I completed ten tasks versus one or two.
This was a great video!! More fertilizing tips please.
Love watching your videos. You do such a good job with all the info given. Your gardening practices help me to know that I'm doing it the right way. Of course gardening for the last forty years has also taught me a few things. I too am only organic. Early on I guess we didn't know the science behind building the soil. I admit to not being organic back in the early eighties.
Organic is also great because it is honestly easier! No need to chase extremes like conventional products push.
I’m right on time then (except with my tomatoes) I pruned my mulberry, tulsi and mini rose yesterday and today and I’ve been potting up plants and adding compost.
Nice, it is so satisfying to do all the busy work!
I wow great timing with this video, i just bought 2 different blueberry plant varieties (Biloxi and emerald) and just finished potting them up yesterday, planted them in a 5 gal smart pot with an acidic organic bagged soil mix specifically for blueberries, they were already flowing when i planted them, cant wait to enjoy some fresh blueberries straight from the garden again 😊
Do you live up north? (The real North, aka central Canada and above) I'm in Alaska and the wild blueberries we pick in the mountains are truly a rare and exquisite gift.
Fresh blueberries really are something special
Nah I live in Phoenix Arizona however I know what u mean I'm originally from Fredericksburg Virginia and used to have a trail behind my old apartment complex lined with wild raspberry (or wine berry) and wild blueberries used to just walk around the trail puffing on my gandolf pipe and harvesting them, the wild raspberry was pretty good but the wild blueberries were absolutely amazing 👍@@BigboiiTone
@@BigboiiTonehowever I was only about 2 hours from the blue ridge mountains and I been hiking down in that area and would love to harvest the spicebush berries, smells just like allspice and is good to eat fresh or some people around the blue ridge area will make spicebush ice cream that's supposed to be really good I would always just eat them fresh though lol
@@earthisflat places like that are so special. Glad you know of such a place friend 😌
Love the in depth look into your fantastic garden and seein’ the lil chickens. So sweet. I’d love advice or info on bird of paradise plants! Very inspiring garden
My advice on bird of paradise is cut it down to a stump and watch it regrow! It came back much better than it was before and I dropped it to the ground.
Excited to see those Phacelias come up! Make sure you show them to us in a future episode. Thanks!
I am finally planting in ground this year. I am not waiting to have the right soil or the right fertilizer or the perfect raised bed. Sunflowers 🌻 sprouted, and corn 🌽. I have too many plants and I still need a whole lot more. But now I am planting my baby seedlings 🌱 and I am so happy! Thank you for all your great knowledge! 🎉
This segment is so educational #PBS ❤
Can't wait to see that CA native flower strip in full bloom!
Romanian here gardening in MA. Love that you’re trying to grow some Bulgarian peppers. I’m doing the same with some Romanian peppers and had moderate success last summer with them. Giving it another go this year :) got my red and white string ready to go for month end too although I don’t think I’ll see blooms on my fruit trees until April :)
Just planted some native wildflowers a few weeks ago - should have done it in the fall, but didn't happen. We've had some quite cold weather and now a few feet of snow, which is actually perfect for winter sown seeds here in Colorado. Hoping for a nice showing in a few months. Am going to borrow the idea from your Bulgarian tradition and use it for the Ostara/Spring Equinox coming up next week - will make a little bracelet and then hang it on one of my fruit trees/bushes when they bloom later this spring. Nice video, covered a lot of ground.
Neat trick on tomato transplanting with the loose soil and just pushing it down, I'm definitely going to try this! However, I start seeding tomorrow and I'll just look longingly out at my garden beds that currently have 14" of snow on them! (Denver 5b) Great video and I appreciate your tips!
Learned the 5 leaf method when I volunteered at Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania.
My first spring crop is germinated under frost cloth in raised beds, I'm looking forward to eating it all!! The native soil has had standing water off and on for a few months but it should start to dry sometimes in April, when I can put in potatoes!!!
What a fun bit of Bulgarian lore! Thanks for telling us about it.
I’m sure there’s a never-ending list of topics, but it would be interesting to see how native plants fare in a space that is being “customized.” Your gardening style seems like it would allow for the soil to remain closer to its native characteristics than say, Kevin’s, so it would be interesting to see if certain natives fare better, worse, or differently in more treated vs untreated spaces!
Look forward to updates on your rose 🌹 ❤😊
It is doing well and had a few blooms and a lot of new growth!
Um I mean Hello 😊 Weeds, I despise them & sometimes they are a true pain.. so I find myself constantly weeding.. so happy growth of your veggies and fruits 😊😊❤❤❤
The early cleanout will pay off in the long run!
Roses are all about the type and what you want. I deal with Winnipeg that you cut back to the ground each year and thet grow back to about a 3 foot bush each summer.
So just know what rose you get.
I use the coffee for my blueberries. I just water it down so it’s not so strong. I can’t afford to buy fertilizers. So, I use what I have and make my own.
Just about to seperate and pot up my tomato seedlings.
Lol the marigold packet popped up while I was holding that packet!
I just made my first trip to Theodore Payne. Lots of great native plants and people there to answer questions. It's very off the beaten path.
It is a super cool spot up in LA, I really enjoyed walking around the established manzanitas alongside the canyon.
Great video, very thorough! I fear ive messed up my tomatoes already with overfertilizing 😅 I'll have to wait and see
I have a hay bale with stinging nettles growing, the roots are very beneficial
Stinging nettle is a wonderful nutrient dense plant for sure.
Excellent Sharing 🎉 I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thanks and welcome!
@@jacquesinthegarden you're welcome 😁 Happy to be here 🙏
So I can do some of this in April, probably May when the snow has melted. I can preplan right now..
It will get here in no time!
We saw some storks in Spain last month, but they were getting San Diego Temps.
This weekend for me it will be mostly enjoying the spring blooms. And continue cleaning up the mess from fall. Dug a massive hole to throw in worth of roughly 3 containers full of oak leaves that were still rolling about between the plants and behind leftovers of the fence we moved to the back of the garden. I'll try to more properly store away that fence too, remove green algae from the sheds walls
Saw cheap bark mulch too so may get that too for the new border. I'd need over 10 bags tho😂
These little tasks are the ones that make life much better in the end!
Hey I just had a suggestion, can you make a video on celery , I'm trying to grow it this year and realize there's not a lot of professional videos on growing it
Hey love your videos, as a fellow San Diegan, love yours and Kevin’s videos. So jealous of your sun golds, my seeds have not yet arrived and you have plants already wow. Please keep me mind if you have extra Sun Gold Seedlings to share, I would love to grow them 😊😊
The nice thing about San Diego is that we can start tomato seeds basically up to June and still get a harvest out of them!
Espoma granular ferts are amazing! They're organic so you don't have to worry about toxins or chemically burning the plant. They're also pet safe and kid safe!
You are wrong if you think you cannot burn your plants with organic fertilizer
Espoma fertilizer is awesome, I ran out of my BioTone so I used what I had on hand!
Row basil, row tomatoes, row flowers: calendula, marigolds, nasturtiums; row tomatoes, row basil. Excellent for the full size birdies bed.
Good Morning Jacques. Curious, it amazed me when you were discussing companion planting your tomatoes, that
we have 2 out of 3 of the exact same varieties I have on my grow racks right now. However, you didn't recommend
whether they should be direct sown, transplanted, or just in pots/buckets simply set in between the tomato
plants, making them moveable. Allegedly, the Emerald Tower Basil can grow up to 36"s tall.
All good tips once again, TYFS
Hi Jacques, love all of your videos I always learn so much, I have a question, what kind of avocado tree is that you have in a pot? I can only do container gardening since I don't the the space for in ground & would love to try growing one. Any tips much appreciated
Thank-you!
This one is called "Sir Prize" I don't actually recall if it is a variety usually recommended for containers. I know there are some like Gem that are more dwarf in nature and better for containers.
Do you recommend planting tomato seeds in their ‘final home’? If so, can you do the same stem burial concept by adding more soil in the container once the seedling is big enough?
You for sure can, I just like to start early and bury deeply every time. You could in theory hill it up as you suggest and get the same outcome.
I love your videos! Question: where did you get your greenhouse from?
Great video! Can we repot citrus trees that are growing the pot? Or whens the best time to do that?
I prefer liquid fertilizers because they go to work immediately & are absorbed by the roots immediately.
🐞🐝🌷🌼🐸😎 thanks!
God im still workin my compost pile trimmin hedges cuttin brush and grass when its not wet burnin 9n the pile adding dirt from digging plant beds. I just had seeds arrive and more this next couple days. I just went and stuck a themometer in the ground to check when its above 55° so I can plant
Can you make a passion fruit vine plant care video? Fertilizer, soil, pruning tips.
I have thought about it, maybe I will work on it through the season.
Any fertilizer recommendations for an established strawberry bed? We're about to have another snow tonight, but I'd like to plan ahead.7a 6900 feet.
Hi, Jacques! Can you tell me more or direct me to where I can learn more about your eco flow? I have a greenhouse that was just installed and I hope to have functional for next spring’s seedlings. One of the things I need to figure out is how to keep my fans running at all time. I want to buy a solar battery but I don’t know what is overkill. The greenhouse is plumbed for electricity, but if I can do fans with solar (heat mats and lights with electric) that would be great. I’m zone 9b, Sierra foothills. Thank you!
Those beautifuorange and yellow flowers by the garlic--what are they? Thanks for the tips! Living through your videos as up here (Northern Canada, zone 3) it's still very much winter!
Blanket Flowers (Gaillardia)
Is that clover I spy in your blueberry pot? 👀 looks awesome!
It is a clover that sort of appeared on its own and I've been running with it to see how that works. So far I don't see any issues!
Hi. Do you keep your trees and bushes in those bags? Are you planning to put them in ground at some point? Land is limited so looking for hope for my grow bags. 😜
Could you use mealworm frasse as fertilizer for fruit trees
Great video Jacque. Whats the name of the flowers next to the garlic? They are beautiful
They are blanket flowers! Wonderful flowers that even self deadhead, they are basically zero work to maintain
Thanks
Romanians have that bracelet too :) boys gift that to girls on the 1st of March, to celebrate spring ) (unless the year when Feb is 29 days, when girls have to give the bracelet to boys :) ) We also have a tradition of the 8 "old ladies" :) you have to choose 1 day ("old lady") between 1-8 March and the rest of your year will be the same as the day you chose :)
I’m assuming I should be a month behind you since my last frost date is April 28, right? The advice on what to tackle is really helpful, thanks Jacques!
That sounds about right!
Spring has barely begun and I already feel behind 😂
Don't worry it is technically still not spring!
How do you keep gnats out when you have sitting water in the trays?
Hi Jacques. I overwintered 2 sweet pepper plants. I'm in Quebec so I won't be planting outside till sometime in May/June. When should I start fertilizing my plants? This is the first time I've overwintered them. Thanks in advance!
I would wait until you plant them out, you don't want extra growth until they are ready to go in the ground.
@@jacquesinthegarden thank you so much for the reply. Love your channel! I'm a big fan of epic gardening too. You and Kevin are very entertaining together 😂
Are there any plants you recommend that will deter snails? I’m in zone 10b and I have a major issue with snails because of the dampness.
Do Nasturtiums really grow so well everywhere or only in your garden, Jacque? Your garden is an Oasis of nasturtiums and mine never ever look like yours? Mild Southern Cali winters? My seedlings just got nipped by 28 degree overnight weather. Try try again. I love watching your garden. I look forward to the Native projects.
I had a few patches that got wrecked by two nights earlier this year when it dropped under 30. They do well across San Diego in general though. There are canyons all over that are FULL of nasturtiums every spring!
We are in central Florida, previously zone 9.
We just experienced root knot nematoads in the tomato bed & all 5 plants were affected. I pulled them out. My son ordered, what he calls, "good nematodes". I have to add them; however, this was quite upsetting experiencing this problem. I did get french marigolds. Please speak about what I should do to make our beds healthy. Thank you in advance.
Is the equal parts fertilizer balanced if most soils don't need that ratio for their plants? What is it balanced for?
Thanks Jacques! How many hours/days do you get out of the Ecoflow battery? Are you charging it routinely?
I have it hooked to a 220 solar panel so it is just passively charging all the time. When it is sunny the panels charge just as fast or faster than the fan draws so it ends up basically at 90% all the time.
@@jacquesinthegardenThat makes sense. Thanks a lot!
I'm curious if weeds have young seeds already once they have flowered? Mine literally just flowered so I'm wondering if I can still use it as green manure or if I should toss it. Thanks 🙏🏼
It is hard to tell with some, I've even seen some continue to develop after pulling. If you aren't sure it is probably best not to risk it.
@@jacquesinthegarden yup, probably not worth the risk! Thanks for your reply ☺️
I done ran out of space in the backyard 😅 I’m starting to plant some trees in the front yard but I fear I’m running out of space there too 😂
Year 3 here 🙂
It is a real problem!
Very in depth Jacques! We are re landscaping our London back garden and we have an old chimney pot about a yard high in old money/ 90 - 100cm, about 10 to 15cm in width and was thinking of planting my old Mother's day, miniature rose plant in there.
How deep do roses roots get normally? Is this a waste of prime estate or can you recommend something else or is this just fine?
I grow nasturtium in window boxes as i like to contain them like mint but as this was part of the house, i would like to respect, this piece more.
Could i plant the rose with Lobelia?
It seems like it is likely deep enough for roses but might be a bit tight. You could for sure choose a variety that is suited to containers though to ensure a healthy run for that plant. Lobelia seems to not compete with other plants much so I think it is actually probably a fair companion but I am no rose expert!
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks Jacques! It's a miniature rose so they don't get too tall/wide. The pot it is has been in the last several years fits in the chimney. I guess i could chuck a few sticks in it, etc to bulk up the bottom whilst it is allowed to expand the roots down and add the lobelia around the front of the sides to grow down/ outside of the chimney.
What variety of flowers are those orange flowers near your garlic?
I think you are asking about the Blanket Flowers. They are really great because they are zero maintenance, they even deadhead themselves.
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Oh yeah, lots of fertilizers just get relabeled, I haven't looked at these in particular but I believe it.